Word: girlish
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...Lindbergh's since her girlhood. "When I was young, I felt so small/And frightened, for the world was tall," ran one of her early verses. The poems of her 303 and 403, collected here for the first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world. Her courage is often colored with resignation, she is still looking for answers and praying for strength, but these poems are, on the whole, triumphant celebrations of life, love, death and, through them all, the "beauty of earth...
...irrepressibility of human nature--of personality, of emotions, of love--seems to be the central theme of the play. The young girls in the convent have renounced worldly things, yet within the limits of monastic walls and rules their youthfulness and vitality burst forth in many ways--in girlish giggling, in writing poems, in squabbling with the other nuns. Most important, their maternal instincts awake immediately upon the arrival of the baby. The play does not hide the unnatural and even pathetic aspects of the monastic life, but it treats the convent and its inhabitants with such tenderness and compassion...
...they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over and they followed feminine intuition in picking the fifth and sixth...
...another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova's Juliet, not quite girlish and a bit plumper about the waist than the American fashion in dancers...
When Juliet is on camera, the ballet goes lyrical, and there is no need for the narrator. By the swiftness of her flashing toes, as she and Romeo first face each other, she establishes a mood of girlish ecstasy; by the neat way she lifts one calf across the other while Romeo holds her aloft, she expresses womanly satisfaction in her conquest; at the marriage, the very line of her pouter-pigeon torso, stretching straight back to her pointed toes as she is held up, delivers an emotional wallop. But the high point of Ballerina Ulanova's performance...